The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK

ALFRED Smith, convicted of tn,
murder of his wife and another woman
named Wilson, was sentenced at Cleve
land on the 18th ult., to Imprisonment
for life.
The thermometer marked ten de.
grees below zero at Ottawa, Canada
on the morning of the Both ult., and
there was nearly five feet of snow or
the ground
i'm the boiler works of T, NJ. Ma.
gle, at Erie, Penna., on the morning Of
the 31st ult., while steam pressure wa:
being got up In a twenty-horse power
boiler which had just been subjected Il
a hydraulic test, the flue plate gave
way, and the superheated steam rushed
oat, Edgar L. Sturtevant. inspector
for the Hartford Steam Boiler Iusur.
ance Company, and Patrick Kelley,
William MeCloud, James Welch and
A. l.. Murphy were frightful,y scalded.
1t was not believed that Sturtevant,
Kelly and McCloud could recover.
When the explosion took place the
guage registered a pressure of only lac
pounds but 1t was probably defective,
Edward NJ. Newman, employed by
Michael Levinson, wholesale clothier,
in New York, was arrested, or the 31st
ult., on the charge of having defraaded
the firm out of $4,000, by making
false entries and misusing checks.
The express car of a train on the
Lake Shore Railroad was entered near
Utica, on the Both ult., by a man who
told the express messenger, Leake, 10
''hold up his hands," and then shot
him in the shoulder. The assailant
then rifled the safe. The loss is vari-
ously estimated at from $1,000 to $1,000.
Anthony Knoll, arrested in Jersey
City on suspicion of being the Railway
murderer, was discharged on the 31st
ult. In the afternoon, e. IL. Ed
ridge, President of the Hudson River
aud Maine Ice Company, viewed the
body of The murdered girl and the
clothing, and said it was that of Mary
Cregan, who was a domestic IN his
house in Brooklyn. "She came from
Syracuse three weeks ago. On the
23d ult. she started for her uncle's
house OH E lott place. BROOKLYN and
has not been seen since. Mr.. Eldridge
could not identify the clothing, but
is positive that the girl was his serv-
ant. Her trunk is still at his house.
She frequently received letters from a
friend in New jersey" A loquacious
young man, named John T. Neary,
who thought the body was that of his
sister, but could not give ''satisfac-
tory answers" upon examination, has
been locked up.
According to d telegram from
Quebec, the snow blockade on the In
tercolonial Railway is "unpreceden-
ted" and all travel on the road is
stopped. There is also a nov block
ade on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The less by the burning of the
shoe factory or Pingree & Smith, in
Detroit, on the S0th ut. is now estl-
mated at 1926. 600; insurance, Sl55. 900.
Two firemen were dangerously injured
by a falling wall.
The report of the loss of the
steamer Eagle. of st. Johns, New
%foundland, has been confirmed by the
finding of wreckage from the vessel on
Funk Island, off Bonavlsta Bay. The
appearance VI luO NlNShhSo lhdl(akCb
that the vessels boilers exploded, and
iG Is believed that all on board were
lost. She had a crew Of 230 men.
LTarleton Steele, colored, murdered
his wife and attempted to cremate her
body near Ada, Alabama, a few days
ago.. He has been lodged in jail at
Montgomery, and has confessed his
guilt, John I. Neary, the youth who
was arrested IN Railway on the 3lst
ult., after talking to the reporters and
the police. on suspicion of completely
In the recent murder there, was dis
charged on the morning of the LIST. He
was a detective from Boston. The
Identification of the body of the muir
dured girl by Mr.. c. II. Eldrige turns
out to he a mistake. 1t is now said her
clothing Is ''that of a Danish immi-
grant
Mrs. Angus Cameron, wife of ok
United States Senator Cameron, threw
herself into the river at La Crosse,
Wisconsin,, on the 3lst ult. She was
rescued and restored to Consciousness.
1t was her second attempt at suicide,
her mind having been affected by an
injury to her spine several years age.
Chief Detective Kelly, of Philadel-
phia, returned from New York on the
evening of the 1st with S300,000 of
bonds and other securities, all the prop
prty stolen from Miller Brothers,
brokers, 1876 South Front Street, Phil
adelphia, whose safe was broken open
and robbed on the night of March
9Th. Access to the building was gained
by means of an unoccupied store next
door. The burglar, John Talbot, was
arrested by Inspector Byrnes, of New
York, acting on the suggestion of
Chief Kelly, who was convinced from
the character of tie ''jOb" whose wo.k
1t was. Talbot has served a term in
Sing Sing, and is now under lndict-
ment for a burglary IN Brooklyn, bav-
ing recently escaped from Raymond
Street Jail,
The house Of j. B. Bolin, in Ced-
arville, California, was burned on the
3Oth ult., and three children persisted
ii the flames. Mrs. Bolln was dan
gerously injured.
The snow blockade on the rail.
roads 10 Quebec a been raised and
the English mails which arrived in
Halifax a week ago were delivered In
Quebec on the mornIn of the 1st.
Joseph Lindenmuth and John Stat
terry were injured. the former perhaps
fatally, by the explosion OF a keg of
powder in a mine at New Castle,
Penna., on the afternoon of the list,
Lindenmuth hung his lamp UP n a
prop, and was filing a cartridge when
the lamp fell into the keg.
The Board of PdrdoDs at Harris
burg on the LIST COMMITTED the death
sentence of William Bnset, OF Elk
county, to Imprisonment for life.
The trial OF DIR, James Hodges in
San Francisco, for exploding a bomb
during a Patti concert, has resulted IN
a verdict of assault with an intent to
commit murder. Hodges testified that
he had one TO the theatre with the
intention of ending his life while FAITH
was singing, so that he "could be her